HueComb

Silk Lining

#fcefe0

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.

Hex

#fcefe0

RGB

252, 239, 224

OKLCh

95.8% 0.024 71.5°

CIELAB (D50)

95.2, 2.7, 8.9

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 55 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 0.0; on black, Lc -98.6. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
  • Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
  • protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.6 and 7.0 and 16.3 — no red cone.

Text on this colour

White text

1.13:1 — fails AA

Black text

18.56:1 — passes AA

Black text is the better of the two at18.56:1. That is enough for body text.

As text on white, it needs to change

#807568 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.

Try it against your own background

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#fcefe0

protanopia

#f1f1e0 · ΔE00 6.6

deuteranopia

#f3f3e0 · ΔE00 7.0

tritanopia

#f6f6ac · ΔE00 16.3

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSoft Gossamer at ΔE00 0.472: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.